Maithili is the traditional writing system for the Maithili language. It is spoken pre-dominantly in the state of Bihar in India and in the Narayani and Janakpur zones of Nepal by more than 35 million people. Maithili is a scheduled language of India and the second most spoken language in Nepal. Maithili is a Brahmi-based script derived from Gauḍī, or ‘Proto-Bengali’, which evolved from the Kuṭila branch of Brahmi by the 10th century. It is related to the Bengali, Newari, and Oriya, which are also descended from Gauḍī, and became differentiated from these scripts by the 14th century. It remained the dominant writing system for Maithili until the 20th century. The Maithili script is associated with a scholarly and scribal tradition that has produced literary and philosophical works in the Maithili and Sanskrit languages from at least the 14th centu...
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